New Delhi, March 6 -- Last week, we wrote about Anthropic's emergence as the poster child of AI. That was short-lived. The US Department of War (formerly, Pentagon) chose the more pliable OpenAI to do business with, even as it threatened to label Claude AI as a "supply-chain risk", due to Anthropic's reluctance to allow use of its models without the couple of extra guardrails.

Anthropic said it cannot "in good conscience accede to their (Department of War's) request", but as we pointed out last week, the confrontation effectively jeopardises Anthropic's long-standing defence contracts with the government, and may make its investors jittery till things become clearer.

An Axios article highlighted that Anthropic has raised more than $60 b...